Stories
- Article
Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
- Article
Shame’s long shadow
What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.
- Book extract
How stories bring us together
Elif Shafak considers how hard it is to be heard in our divided world, but how listening can nurture wisdom, connection and empathy.
- Article
Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Blue book labelled 'Mounds and Tunnels'
Date: 1950s-1960sReference: PP/LOW/W/46Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Books
Father A. Monserrate's Description of Delhi (1581) : Firoz Shāh's Tunnels / by H. Hosten.
Hosten, Henri.Date: 1997- Books
Und doch Licht am Ende des Tunnels! : Jugend- und Kriegserinnerungen eines Truppenarztes und Nazigegners / Franz Kraus.
Kraus, Franz, 1916-Date: 2011- Books
Bone lesions in compressed air workers : with special reference to men who worked on the Clyde Tunnels 1958 to 1963 / report of Decompression Sickness Panel, Medical Research Council ; prepared by R.I. McCallum and D.N. Walker ; with the assistance of R. Barnes [and others].
Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Decompression Sickness Panel.Date: [1966?]
- Pictures
The construction of the great sewage tunnels, near Old Ford, Bow. Wood engraving, 1859, after F. Thompson.
Thompson, F., active 1859.Date: 1859Reference: 37810i